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Like a noob, I followed what you instructed and it leads me to this site called Wikipedia. It describes SEO as:

Originally Posted by Wikipedia

Search engine optimization (SEO) is the process of improving the volume or quality of traffic to a web site from search engines via "natural" ("organic" or "algorithmic") search results. Typically, the earlier a site appears in the search results list, the more visitors it will receive from the search engine. SEO may target different kinds of search, including image search, local search, and industry-specific vertical search engines. This gives a web site web presence.

As an Internet marketing strategy, SEO considers how search engines work and what people search for. Optimizing a website primarily involves editing its content and HTML coding to both increase its relevance to specific keywords and to remove barriers to the indexing activities of search engines.

while it is advisable for everyone to search using their fav search engine, it can sometimes happen that a particular user may not have understood the concept entirely. I feel that is where forums like this one help out.

i am a n00b myself when it comes to SEO .. so i would like some suggestions too.

well if you are looking in short SEO is way to increase backlinks of your sites , increase PR and traffic of your site . For more details just search SEO in wikipedia you will come to know about it in much more details.